Brief History of History

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Great Historians and the Epic Quest to Explain the Past

By: Colin Wells

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Hardcover | 1 September 2008

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What Daniel Boorstin did for science in The Discoverers, Timothy Ferris for cosmology in Coming of Age in the Milky Way, and Robert Heilbroner for economics in The Worldly Philosophers, Colin Wells now does for history in A Brief History of History, The most accessible, concise, and clear-sighted biography ever of history as a living idea, this book brings together evocative sketches of the great historians with concise summaries of their key works.

From its humble origins as a minor literary genre in ancient Greece, to its modern-day status as perhaps the most successful monument to the global spread of Western civilisation, Wells traces the remarkable evolution of this branch of knowledge, and shows how it has long been the turf on which we fight our culture wars.

A riveting blend of readability, vibrant humour, and penetrating insight, A Brief History of History is a must for anyone for whom living in the present, and looking to the future, is unimaginable without serious reflection on the past.

About the Author

Colin Wells is the author of Sailing from Byzantium : How a Lost Empire Shaped the World and The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Saudi Arabia.

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Non-Fiction History General & World History History Theory & Methods Historiography

Prologue: The Traveler's Tale	p. ix
"A Possession for Always"	p. 1
"From the Foundation of the City"	p. 19
Barbarians (and Believers) at the Gate	p. 40
Clio Nods	p. 62
The Wall of Faith	p. 84
History Reborn	p. 107
Point, Counterpoint	p. 129
New Worlds	p. 141
The Challenge of Reason	p. 163
Reason and Imagination Pass Each Other in the Night	p. 182
Making It (Sort of) in the Enlightenment	p. 200
History Goes to School and Gets a Job	p. 221
The Last Amateur	p. 237
History Discovers Art and Culture	p. 247
Deep Time	p. 264
Vast Impersonal Forces	p. 279
The Return of the Storyteller	p. 294
Epilogue: History Comes of Age	p. 311
Suggested
Reading	p. 315
Acknowledgments	p. 319
Notes	p. 321
Index	p. 331
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